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Nearly 100 Arrested at NYC Protest Urging Schumer and Gillibrand to Halt Israel Arms Sale

The arrests cap a push to sway a Senate vote this week on Bernie Sanders’s bid to block a $600 million weapons deal.

Chelsea Manning, bottom second left, and protesters with Jewish Voice for Peace block traffic during a demonstration outside the New York office of U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer, calling for an end to the U.S.-Israel war with Iran and opposing U.S. weapons support, Monday, April 13, 2026, in New York. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki)
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Overview

  • Hundreds led by Jewish Voice for Peace gathered at the senators’ Midtown offices Monday, where a blocked sit-in moved into the street and stopped traffic for about an hour.
  • Organizers said police detained roughly 90 to 100 people, including Chelsea Manning, actor Hari Nef, and NYC Council Member Alexa Avilés, while the NYPD reported only “multiple” arrests.
  • Police zip‑tied demonstrators and loaded them onto buses as they chanted “fund people, not bombs” outside the building at Third Avenue and East 50th Street.
  • The protest pressed the senators to support Bernie Sanders’s joint resolutions of disapproval, which aim to stop more than $600 million in U.S.-made bombs bound for Israel.
  • Sanders’s similar effort last summer drew support from over half of Senate Democrats, though not from Schumer or Gillibrand, setting up a test as a new vote is expected this week.